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Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser (born September 14, 1976, Houston, United States), aged 50, is an American linguist, writer. Moser is best known for Sontag and Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector. Moser's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Benjamin Moser’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Benjamin Moser’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Storyteller

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Benjamin in the U.S.?

#11

US rank in 2025

~829,312

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

In 1976, 10,672 American boys and 53 girls were registered Benjamin — 32nd among boys and 1,778th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Benjamin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Benjamin apart

Leo XIV (1955) and Sam Neill (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Benjamin, according to the stars

Core essence

Benjamin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Benjamin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Benjamin wants to be loved

Benjamin wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Benjamin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Benjamin creates

How Benjamin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Benjamin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Benjamin is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Benjamin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Benjamin leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Benjamin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Benjamin's birth date. Working below.

Where Benjamin sits

Six lines

Benjamin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Benjamin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Benjamin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Benjamin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Benjamin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Benjamin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Benjamin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Benjamin’s birth-night reference starAlbireowarm orange · CygnusAlbireo, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 86.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Albireo →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 21.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Houston that night

Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Houston at 9 p.m. that evening: Albireo of Cygnus, within 3.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 66% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.

How unusual Benjamin's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · 2 unaspected planets · A leaning bowl

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Benjamin Moser in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Benjamin Moser's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

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Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Benjamin Moser was born on September 14, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Benjamin Moser's birth date, September 14, 1976, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Benjamin’s chart

Benjamin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun in Virgo · 21°59′☉21°Moon in Taurus · 29°44′☽29°Mercury in Libra · 6°03′ · retrograde☿℞6°Venus in Libra · 15°56′♀15°Mars in Libra · 13°54′♂13°Jupiter in Gemini · 1°10′♃1°Saturn in Leo · 12°19′♄12°Uranus in Scorpio · 4°47′♅4°Neptune in Sagittarius · 11°20′♆11°Pluto in Libra · 10°50′♇10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.3° orb

    Benjamin’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb

    Benjamin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

    Benjamin’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.3° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Benjamin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 25°50′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 4°03′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 22°48′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°

Benjamin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Benjamin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°

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Benjamin’s cards

Computed from September 14, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4889044 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Benjamin Moser’s chart

How old is Benjamin Moser?
Benjamin Moser is 50 years old, born September 14, 1976 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Benjamin Moser?
Benjamin Moser is a Virgo: born September 14, 1976, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Benjamin Moser's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1976 birth.
What is Benjamin Moser's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Benjamin Moser's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Benjamin Moser's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Benjamin Moser's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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